News for July 2008

Enabling WebVPN on the Cisco Router

Implement a WebVPN infrastructure to preconfigure internal web sites and tunnel connections to the internal applications.

aaa authentication
crypto pki trustpoint self_certificate
enrollment selfsigned
serial-number none
ip-address none
crypto pki enroll self_certificate
crypto pki certificate chain self_certificate
certificate self-signed 02
webvpn gateway gateway1
ip interface FastEthernet0 port 443
http-redirect port 80
ssl trustpoint self_certificate
inservice
webvpn context webvpn
title-color #CCCC66
secondary-color white
text-color black
ssl authenticate verify all
port-forward "portforward_list_1"
local-port 3022 remote-server "10.0.1.30" remote-port 22 description "SSH"
policy group policy_1
port-forward "portforward_list_1"
default-group-policy policy_1
gateway gateway1 domain webvpn
max-users 2
inservice
Posted: July 29th, 2008
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Enabling PPTP VPN on the Cisco Router

From your Windows or Mac system, you can use PPTP to connect to your router to establish a VPN session.

aaa new-model
aaa authentication ppp default local
vpdn enable
vpdn-group soho-vpn
accept-dialin
protocol pptp
virtual-template 1
interface virtual-template1
ip unnumbered <interface>
peer default ip address pool vpnpool
ppp encrypt mppe auto required
ppp authentication ms-chap ms-chap-v2
ip local pool vpnpool 10.0.1.10 10.0.1.15
Posted: July 29th, 2008
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Enabling SSH on the Cisco Router

Telnet sends information over the network in cleartext. To enable SSH on your Cisco Router and to disable telnet, execute the commands below.
You’ll have to pick your own username and password ;)

aaa new-model
username CISCO password 0 CISCO
line vty 0 4
transport input ssh
cry key generate rsa
ip ssh time-out 60
ip ssh authentication-retries 2
Posted: July 29th, 2008
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Speedtest after the Apple AEBS 7.3.2 Firmware Update

I just upgraded the firmware on my Apple Airport Extreme Base Station to 7.3.2. Here are the results of my speedtest after the upgrade. 

Posted: July 6th, 2008
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